Wednesday, October 26, 2011

We've been doing our annual tour of all the local pumpkin patches this month, including the one that I wrote about last year with the open trough of baby chicks that the kiddies can have at.

Every year I think that we will be greeted by PETA protesters, and every year the trough-o-chicks is back. Fine by me, because Audrey is obsessed with them.

This year, I think I actually did witness a strangulation. Audrey was doing her usual pick-em-up-throw-em-back and jumping up and down and flapping in between, when another mother suddenly handed her a chick. Audrey said, "Awwww...he's sleeping!" and put him back in the trough. Yeah, he was taking one big long dirt nap alright.

So, in other words, either this woman or her child squeezed the chick to death (what the PLEASE DON'T SQUEEZE THE CHICKS sign isn't clear enough for you?), and then they hand it off to Audrey and try to pin it on her. The old blame-the-dead-animal-on-the-autistic-kid move, eh? Hey, I invented that move. Wait.

Ssshhh, Werewolf Elvis.
Just ssssshhhhhh.

Reacharound!

Performing a chicky gyno exam

Look Ma, a twofer!

Our pumpkin patch not only celebrates Halloween but
Hispanic Heritage Month with this Mexican jail jumpy house

Oh my gosh...I cannot believe someone tried to pull the old, hand off the dead chick, routine. Really, they are probably just on the way to the, well, the place where our science museum sends their really cute chicks...soooo....yeah...no harm, no fowl. <---

We were at the Fall Festival last weekend, at the "cardboard box O chicks", and I was SURE that my kid would be the one to squeeze them to death. As luck would have it, the mama chicken was perched on the edge of the box, ready to peck out the eyes of any manhandlers. Disaster averted!!!

And the bounce house?? Congrats on finding the most un-PC pumpkin patch ever!!! Too funny!